Author, city planner aims to make cities more walkable

5:26 PM,
Jan. 20, 2014

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The ninth-annual Reshaping Rochester lecture series kicks off Tuesday evening with a speaker who argues that America's battle with diabetes and obesity is "born of our landscape" and truly is an urban design crisis.

Jeff Speck - city planner, architectural designer and author of the 2012 book "Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time" - says suburban sprawl and car culture is not just poor planning but bad for the community economy and people's health. He will offer a toolbox of sorts to enliven streets so people want to get out and bike or walk.